Andrew Flynn at the double in Cúirt
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THEATRE DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn is in for a busy few weeks in the lead up to Cúirt as he is directing two plays in the festival.
Read more ...Gift Grub Live 2 is coming
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
GIFT GRUB Live 2 starring Mario Rosenstock as a host of Irish political, media, sporting, and celebrity characters is coming to the Radisson Blu Hotel on Sunday April 22
Read more ...The Nualas: One Night of Dignity
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
GOOD FRIDAY was once a day of severe solemnity but over the last few years it has become a day of laughter and merriment in Galway and that tradition is set to continue this year.
Read more ...Galway Camera Club exhibition
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THE GALWAY Camera Club will hold an exhibition of its members work in The Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway.
The exhibition will be opened by Galway Advertiser chair Ronnie O’Gorman tomorrow at 1pm.
Read more ...Indie rock gig at Richardson’s
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THREE IRISH indie rock bands will play Richardson’s, Eyre Square, tomorrow night from 9pm.
Read more ...Aslan @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
LONG RUNNING Dublin rock band Aslan are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Friday April 13 at 8pm.
Read more ...Gourmet laughs with Maeve Higgins
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
MAEVE HIGGINS will perform two lunchtime shows at the Ruby Room in The King’s Head on Saturday April 7 and Sunday 8 .
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
Read more ...Little Cinema @ Kelly’s
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THE NEXT Little Cinema Club takes place on Tuesday April 3 at 9pm in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Mikey and the Scallywags to launch debut EP in Kelly’s
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THEY PLAY folk rock, gypsy-swing, and a bit of hip-hop. You can see them at Kelly’s Window Sessions gig, and some of the members busking flamboyantly on our city streets.
Read more ...Fuzzed Out Sessions at The Cellar Bar
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
FUZZED OUT Sessions is the name of a new night for hard rock and heavy metal gigs and the pilot event for the nights takes place downstairs in The Cellar Bar this evening at 8pm.
Read more ...Sunday Service @ Massimos
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
Great food and great sounds played on vinyl. Expect to hear chilled out Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, 60s R&B and Reggae and what ever else the lazy Sunday dictates. Every Sunday from 1-3pm.
Read more ...Gerry O’Connor to play Kinvara
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
GERRY O’CONNOR, one of the finest banjo players in Ireland, mandolin master Brendan O’Regan, and guitarist Tony Byrne are coming to Kinvara.
Read more ...Headford gets ready to rock at Headstock
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
FIVE GALWAY bands will be taking to the stage of the Headford Town Hall on Saturday April 7 for a night entitled Headstock.
Read more ...Community Skratch Games
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games returns on Saturday April 7 and Sunday 8 in The Bierhaus.
Read more ...Do mention the war
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
AS WELL as being a poet of note, Kevin Higgins is also a perceptive, cutting, witty, and rather wise critic, and a new book collects some of the best of his reviews and essays.
Read more ...Auld Ireland through a Swedish lens
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
TWENTY PHOTOGRAPHS taken by Swedish photographers in the early 20th century are on display at NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library.
Read more ...BAAD by name but not by nature
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
AN EXHIBITION of work by part-time art and design students in the Cluain Mhuire campus, GMIT, entitled The BAAD Art Show, opens today at 2pm.
Read more ...Gerry Hanberry reading
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
GALWAY WRITER Gerard Hanberry will be reading from More Lives Than One, a biography of Oscar Wilde and the Wilde family, this weekend.
Read more ...Talk on Kate O’Brien at Forge At Gort
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
KATE O’BRIEN, one of the most notable and controversial Irish writers of the 20th century, will be the subject of a public lecture at the Forge At Gort festival.
Brian O'Rourke, a retired lecturer in Irish Studies at the GMIT spent a day in O’Brien’s company in the 1970s. He will recall the day in this talk I Spent Yesterday With Kate O’Brien, which takes place on Saturday at 4pm in Sullivan’s Hotel, Gort.
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